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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

Even for later-stage companies with predictable financials, the lack of liquidity, audited financials, and standardized metrics creates real challenges to scaling quantitative investing. A number of analysts have particular focus on serving the customers of technology companies, e.g., Gartner and 451 Research.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going. So frequently embarrassing failures are masked by spinning PR or fudging numbers to give the illusion of success. Then, forget everything else, VCs included, and just build.